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Illegal Aliens Cause Traffic Pile-up That Kills 7 NewsMax.com WiresEL CAJON, Calif. – The California Highway Patrol on Tuesday was investigating a deadly pile-up caused by a van packed with illegal aliens apparently trying to evade an immigration checkpoint. Six people were killed and around 30 were injured Monday night, all because the van traveled the wrong way on an interstate freeway outside San Diego. A seventh person died Tuesday. The wreck involved five vehicles and 43 people. It closed Interstate 8 on the rural eastern outskirts of El Cajon for 10 hours. "The van was not being pursued at the time by any agencies," CHP officer Steven Lopez said Tuesday. The maroon Dodge van had been spotted by the Border Patrol around 9 p.m. PDT near Buckman Springs driving westbound toward San Diego with its headlights off in the eastbound lanes of I-8, the main road link between San Diego and Arizona. A few minutes later, Lopez said, the van sideswiped two Honda sedans near El Cajon and then struck a Ford Explorer head on, sending the sport utility vehicle over an embankment, killing the driver and injuring a passenger. A Toyota van then struck the crippled Dodge van. The unidentified driver of the Dodge was among five people killed in the van, which was filled with 33 illegal aliens from Mexico, Brazil and other Latin American nations. Six of the injured had to be airlifted to some of the eight hospitals that treated victims from the crash. Firefighters returning from a nearby brush fire were on the scene within minutes, Lopez said. It was not clear whether the seventh person who died had been in the Dodge van or the Explorer, he said. The remote area, about 45 miles east of San Diego, is routinely exploited by smugglers driving vehicles crammed with illegal aliens. The crash was the second this year in San Diego County involving a large number of criminal aliens. A van struck a boulder on Route S2 on May 15, injuring 15 occupants. Copyright 2002 by United Press International. All rights reserved.
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